Guardian First Book Award

Granta author Eleanor Catton is one of the writers longlisted for this year’s Guardian First Book Award

The longlist for this year’s Guardian First Book Award was announced today.

A Swamp Full of Dollars by Michael Peel
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis
Direct Red by Gabriel Weston
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Missing by Sian Hughes

Michael Peel’s essay about the oil industry, ‘Paradox of Plenty’, appeared on Granta.com in March. Petina Gappah’s ‘An Open Letter to Thabo Mbeki’ was published on Granta.com last year. Eleanor Catton’s debut novel, The Rehearsal, was published by Granta Books and has already won a Betty Trask Award – you can read the first chapter online. Catton’s short story, ‘Two Tides’, appeared in Granta 106: New Fiction Special. You can watch a Granta.com interview with her here.

The shortlist will be announced in November.